Saturday, June 10, 2006

Two Beers in Secondary

Friday, May 26, 2006

Two More Beers, a label, and a name for the Brewery

I have brewed two beers and bottled the Belgian - T (after the T58 yeast used). First I brewed a version of the brewboard's summer community beer. I kegged this one already and am not too satisfied with it. Second, I also mashed and feremented 11.6# of assorted grains. This has since been bottled and it has a strong taste of tobacco. Maybe it'll be the tobacco beer. That is the last time I volunteer to save grains from the trashcan. I look forward to brewing beers I like (APAs, IPAs, browns, and the occasional stout/porter) and am less likely to experiment any more than I have to.

Above is the draft of a label. While it is currently called Malcolm's Sweet Pale Ale, I am thinking of dropping some Beano tablets in the keg to break down the complex sugars and then changing the name to the more appealling Malcolm's Pale Ale.

Brewed a Brown Ale (4/8)

This is a very tasty beer. I made some carbonator (for carbonation) caps to free up some kegs. In the carb'd two liter is the remnants of the milk stout I brewed in February. I have 4 two liter bottles.

Another Pale Ale (brewed 4/1)

Again, I mashed at a temp that is way too high, 160F. This beer is in secondary right now. I added racked this beer only to find the gravity at 1.028. I added dry champagne yeast in hopes of getting the gravity down some. I'll have to keg this beer for sure if the gravity fails to come down some more.

Mash Temps: Too High

I mashed the Stout at about 160F, the ideal is 150 or so. This means that I converted the fermentable sugars into dextrins, unfermantable sugars. The stout fermented out to a whopping FG of 1.028. I kegged it on 3/24/06 and we'll just call this the "Uber Sweet Stout." It has a slight tobacco of burnt off flavor to it, we'll let it age a bit and see how it comes out. Nonetheless, it is still a very drinkable beer.